All the great things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they who have founded religions and created great works of art.

However, the danger in [socially unbalanced relationships] is that the subjection of the woman temporarily calms the man's jealousy but also renders it more demanding. He ends up making his mistress live like those prisoners on whom light is shone day and night in order for them to be better watched. And things always end in tragedy.

A picture's beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.

A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may become more acute, but not remain as pure.

We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.